This Week in Rust 241 July 3rd 2018 - xSicKx - 07-05-2018
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Updates from Rust Community
News & Blog Posts- Rust 2018: the home stretch.
- Microsoft announces using Rust to build some of its Azure IoT functionality.
- Learning SIMD with Rust by finding planets.
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llvm-tools
- , a new rustup component for binary inspection (objdump, nm, size) and profiling (profdata).
- How much Rust in Firefox?
- A rusty go at channels.
- Better HTTP upgrades with hyper.
- Our Vision for wasm-bindgen.
- The Embedded WG newsletter 6.
- [podcast] Rusty Spike Podcast - episode 35. Rust 1.27, new books, Microsoft, Eclipse, converting C to Rust, the Rust 2018 preview, the Rust 2018 roadmap, and RFCs.
- [podcast] New Rustacean news – Rust 1.27. Stable SIMD, dyn trait, rustfix and the alpha release of the Rust 2018 Edition Preview.
Crate of the Week
This week's crate is datafrog, the lightweight embeddable datalog engine that powers Rust's non-lexical lifetimes (NLL). Thanks to Jules Kerssemakers for the suggestion.
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Call for Participation
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Updates from Rust Core
174 pull requests were merged in the last week
Approved RFCs
Changes to Rust follow the Rust RFC (request for comments) process. These are the RFCs that were approved for implementation this week:
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